Forum Discussion
Ben_Novak
Nov 24, 2009Employee
You can't have both sides of the trunk active (switch1 and switch2) from a single F5 unless you are running VSS. It’s just like configuring a port channel between a 3560 and two 6500s, spanning-tree will block one of the ports from the 6500 side. You can't properly aggregate traffic across the links of two different switches.
One question though. Why are you trying to bundle all eight ports? The 3400s only have a traffic throughput of 1Gbps even though it has eight gigabit ports. Really, all you need is two ports to each F5 for port redundancy if you really want it.